Fountain-washstand



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES R. ENDER, OF TRENTON, LOUISIANA.

FOUNTAIN-WASHSTAND.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,476, dated August 7, 1860.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. R. ENDER, of Trenton, in the parish of W'achita and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Fountain-IVashstand; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure represents a vertical longitudinal section taken through the middle of my portable fountain washstand, showing the several peculiarities of the saine.

The object of this invent-ion is to combine with a portable washstand the advantages of a head of water, whereby a supply may be obtained for the basin from a faucet or bracket pipe at pleasure, and thus, where a dwelling is not supplied with water pipes, leading from a common reservoir, or where it would be inconvenient and objectionable to furnishthe house with water pipes, the advantages of having a ready supply of water will be obtained by my invention at the same time it is not necessary that the washstand should be established in any one place about an apartment.

For effecting these objects my invention consists in arranging within theA cupboard or body of the washstand and under the basin in the top of said stand, a reservoir of a suitable capacity containing a suitable water bellows from which proceeds a tube or pipe, which leads to the basin and is furnished with a suitable stop-cock. The bellows is suitably weighted and constructed so that it will give a steady downward force to the water contained in it,`and supply the basin whenever the cock should be turned, as will be hereinafter described and represented.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary washstand, which may be of any suitable size, shape, or design, and B is the basin having the usual vent hole a, in its bottom with a plug and chain o, and a waste pipe c, leading from the vent hole to a slop bucket O. For lightness and portability the basin B, may be made of light sheet metal and suitably painted or enameled.

D is a cylinder of any required size, which is placed to one side of the washstand under the basin B, and within the stand so that it may be out of sight when the front doors of the stand are closed. The cylinder incloses a bellows E, made of any suitable waterproof and flexible material and surrounded at intervals with metal rings d, which prevent the sides of the bellows from swelling out and coming in contact with the inner sides of the cylinder when filled with water. The bottom of the bellows is fixed to the cylinder D, and the top is free to rise and fall. F is the supply pipe which communicates with the interior of the bellows through its bottom and leads up to the basin B, as represented in the drawings, where it is bent over and furnished with a stop-cock G. The top of the bellows is provided with a supply orilice H, suitably closed for filling the bellows with water, and also a suitable weight H, for giving the necessary pressure to force the water up through pipe I", into the basin when the cock G, is opened.

J is a drum having its bearings in the top of the cylinder D, above the bellows, around which passes a cord g, which leads to the center of the bellows head where it is attached. The drum J, is provided with a ratchet wheel and pawl, and a winch to wind up the cord g, for raising the bellowss head up to the point shown in the drawings for filling the bellows with water. bellows has, in this manner, been filled the orifice H, is closed tightly and the cord g, is detached from the bellowss head, or, what would be the same thing, the pawl is disengaged from its ratchet, the weight H, will then exert a suthcient downward pressure on the water in the bellows to give a free supply through the cock H, to the basin B.

From this description it will be understood that I obtain, by a simple means, a portable fountain washstand, and a very desirable and useful article of furniture for dwelling houses or apartments that are not When the 

